JUMNA AKis- BHAGIHATHI' RIYERS, 21^ 



When we reached the village, no male inhabitants ' were to be 

 '•feen, fave a few old brahmins and d^crepid old men, who, with th^ 

 women and children, remained in the houfes. In anfwer to ourenqui- 

 ry, as to where the others were— we were readily and unhefitatingly an- 

 fwered^ *' that they had gone to buy corn, or to Heal fheep j'* and in a 

 tone, that proved they thought this a piece of bufiners., too ordinary 

 .^.nd common to conceal. 



From the defcriptions attempted of the nature and appearance of 



the JumnaPs banks, it may be conceived, that nothing wilder or more 



jmpra6licable could well prefent itfelf to the traveller, than the fcenes 



they afford ; and rconfefs, that while- viewing them, this was my own 



.i'izA. Neverthelels, it is certain, tha>t the charaSer ol the mountains 



;Vi^hich form that part of the Bhagimt'hi's banks, we have paded todays, 



.differs from that of any yet (cen,, and >s marked by features Aill more 



sTugged and inacceflible. 



The common drefs is here: the fame as tha.t in ofs at Curjkh'—bhnk'' 

 iSXs of black or grey wool. 



'Just at the entrance of the villaee, 1 was ft ruck by the fsght of a 

 ;goofberry hu(h, a plant we had long looked for, without fucccfs; it 

 was growing in a negleded Ptate, but there was fruit upon it nearly ripe, 

 though fmall and four, and there could be no doubt of the identity of 

 the plant ; this nearly completes the idl of the common Englifii garden 

 fruits, found in. the hills.* 



* Hbre, wlien settlc'I for <l-r nij;l)(, cnqiiries weie iiruie respecli it; iha ro»d<, wliich le«d from (his 

 pninf »o liadar Hak on iJie on • liuw! '^ CVr/ar — and to Buros'-'u, iiwir th ■ lieafi of 'h". Jonse, on lh« 

 otlirr; bodi across thisnowj' hiJU ; n* wtll qs resp-ntiii^; what Passes tliere might be io this ruighboar- 

 hottd (lirougli <[iem to (ke Chinese ilonwuiono, «lie'bi>uiidnrie8 of which, I learnt, cominencrd at no gre"fe 

 «3i9(anre: and havinp undcrs ooil (hat t^to liftofins, iniiabiinnts of a villape within the Chinca territories. 

 ,wireln tlifi nei/^hboutboodp 1 desired llit^ uiight be l>ri>uj;!it for ih^ purpose of queslioiiing tbem. 



